CA2054388A1 - Plastic bag dispensing apparatus for supermarkets incorporating devices for the registering of the purchased items - Google Patents
Plastic bag dispensing apparatus for supermarkets incorporating devices for the registering of the purchased itemsInfo
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- CA2054388A1 CA2054388A1 CA002054388A CA2054388A CA2054388A1 CA 2054388 A1 CA2054388 A1 CA 2054388A1 CA 002054388 A CA002054388 A CA 002054388A CA 2054388 A CA2054388 A CA 2054388A CA 2054388 A1 CA2054388 A1 CA 2054388A1
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Classifications
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
- A47F9/00—Shop, bar, bank or like counters
- A47F9/02—Paying counters
- A47F9/04—Check-out counters, e.g. for self-service stores
- A47F9/042—Shopping bags or carton-dispensing systems therefor
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
- A47F9/00—Shop, bar, bank or like counters
- A47F9/02—Paying counters
- A47F9/04—Check-out counters, e.g. for self-service stores
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
- G07G1/00—Cash registers
- G07G1/0036—Checkout procedures
- G07G1/0045—Checkout procedures with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
- G07G1/0054—Checkout procedures with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader with control of supplementary check-parameters, e.g. weight or number of articles
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- Cash Registers Or Receiving Machines (AREA)
- Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
- Vending Machines For Individual Products (AREA)
- Auxiliary Apparatuses For Manual Packaging Operations (AREA)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Apparatus for dispensing and opening plastic bags from a continuous strip wound in a reel up to detach from it a bag (4) at a time, to open it and keep it open below a mouth (8) through which a custo-mer may insert the items he purchased, the apparatus is formed by four assemblable functional blocks con-stituted by a reel supporting device (3) feeding the strip of bags to a unit (1), of dispensing and open-ing of bags (4), that loads a balance (2) connected through a computer (7) to a scanner (6), said compu-ter (7) and said scanner (6) forming the fourth func-tional block of the assemblabe system.
Apparatus for dispensing and opening plastic bags from a continuous strip wound in a reel up to detach from it a bag (4) at a time, to open it and keep it open below a mouth (8) through which a custo-mer may insert the items he purchased, the apparatus is formed by four assemblable functional blocks con-stituted by a reel supporting device (3) feeding the strip of bags to a unit (1), of dispensing and open-ing of bags (4), that loads a balance (2) connected through a computer (7) to a scanner (6), said compu-ter (7) and said scanner (6) forming the fourth func-tional block of the assemblabe system.
Description
2~3~8 "PLASTI~ 9AG DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR SUPERMARKETS
INCORPORATING DEVICES FOR THE REGISTERING OF THE
PURCHASED ITEMS"
The present invention relates to an apparatus intended to be placed in supermarkets and in other similar points of sale to dispense one at a time plastic bags unwound from a reel, open them and keep them open below a mouth through which the customer of the supermarket may insert in the bag the purchas-ed items that must be taken away, after having regi-stered their characteristics and cost by means of a scanner connected to such apparatus by a computer.
It is known that recently in supermarkets and in other similar points of sale devices have been ;ntroduced to dispense plastic bags to the customers and allow them to easily insert in such bags, kept open by the device, the purchased items normally paid to the check-out counter. Devices of this kind are described for instance in the Canad;an patent applicatjOn No.2028684-9 filed by the same appli-cant.
Such prior devices have not any instrument to 2û verify the characteristics and price of the purchased items so their use is solely Limited to the packaging of the purchased goods. Thus they may be used only downstream the check-out counters of the supermarkets and therefore they do not contribute to reduce the t;me that cashiers need to register the goods purchas ed by each customer.
2~5~3~
The object of the present ;nvention is to provide a bag dispensing apparatus suitabLe to be used up-stream the check-out counters of the supermarkets so that to allow the customer to register by himself the purchased goods and come to the check-out counter only to pay the due amount.
Such object ;s achieved accord;ng to the present invention by means of a bag dispens;ng apparatus of the type described in the above mentioned prior Euro-pean patent application characterized in that itcomprises as well a scanner connected through a com-puter to a balance arranged below sald dispensing device and apt to detect the weight of the items inserted into the plastic bags.
The dispensing apparatus according to the pre-sent invention offers the advantage to allow the customer, besides the packaging of the purchased items, a precise registration of such items and the-refore to stay at the check out counter exclusively for the time necessary to the payment of the bill.
Obviously this considerably limits the forming of queues at the check-out counters.
A further advantage offered by the dispenser according to this invention consists in that it can be directly connected by means of cables to the che-ck-out counter therefore with no need even of the use of a pr;nter to issue cash-slips.
These and other advantages and characteristics of the apparatus according to the present invention will be clear to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of one embodiment 2~ 3~8 thereof with reference to the anne~ed drawings in which:
FIGURE 1 shows a perspective v;ew of a dispens-________ ing apparatus according to the present invention;
FIGURE 2 shows an elevational partially sctioned front view of the apparatus according to the present invention;
FIG_RE_3 shows an elevational partially section-ed side view of the dispensing apparatus; and FIGyRE-- shows a flow-chart describing the func-tioning of such apparatus.
Referring to Fig. 1 there can be seen that the apparatus according to the present invention comprises four distinct ~unctional blocks, i.e. a unit 1 for dispensing and opening the bags that rests on a ba-lance 2 and that is interposed between a reel sup-porting device 3, surmounted by a channel 5 for the removal of bags 4, and a counter 11 on which a scan-ner 6 and a computer 7 are mounted. Unit 1 has on its upper part a mouth 8 through which the customer may insert the purchased items and let them fall inside a bag 4 arranged in open position below said mouth 8.
In Fig~ 1 the hand is shown as well of the cu-stomer who, having taken a can 9 from an usual trol-ley, is causing the scanner 6 to read the bar code 10 of said can 9. The scanner decodes all data con-tained in the bar code, among which the weight of can 9 with the allowable deviation in weight thereof.
Such data are stored inside c~mputer 7 and displayed on the monitor, while scanner 6 is inhibited. In ~ I) r~ 8 virtue of such inhibition the customer cannot make the mistake to register the can 9 more than once, or to re~ister a further item forgetting to insert the can 9 into the bag ~t.
The can 9 is introduced by the customer into the mouth 8 and let fall into the underposed bag 4~
Now the balance 2, whcse tare comprises the weight of the whole unit 1, detects the weight o-f can 9 and transmits it to the computer. The computer compares the we;ght of can 9 detected by the balance 2 and the one read from the bar code, taking into account the allowable deviation as well. If the two values of the can weight agree, the computer reactivates the scanner 6 allowing the registration of another item.
In the case in which the two weights, detected respectively by balance 2 and by scanner 6, of the same item differ, on the monitor the order appears to pull out from bag 4 the can 9 and to repeat the registrations thereof by scanner 6 reactivated in the meantime. If after said second registration a difference will exist again between the weight read in the bar code 10 and the one detected by the ba-lance, on the mon;tor of computer 7 the request will appear to seek for the technical assistance of the supermarket to repair the obvious breakdown.
The customer may go on with the registration of the items he purchased until the last one of them or until the complete filling of bag 4. In the first case he has nothing to do but pressing a suitabLe button causing the ejection of the filLed bag 4 push-2 ~
ing it on the channel 5 from which it can be easily taken by the customer before going to the check-out counter -for the payment of the purchased goods.
Whereas ;n the second case the customer reads on the monitor of computer 7 the order to puLl out from the mouth 8 the last item inserted as it has an encumbrance greater than the remaining room of bag 4. Once the customer has executed this extraction following the instructions read on the monitor of computer 7, on this monitor the request appears for the customer to press the button -For the ejection of the filled bag 4 and the dispensing of an empty bag 4' below the mouth 8. In the meantime the scanner 6 has been reactivated so the customer may register a new item taken from the trolley and begin a new ope-rating cycle until the complete packaging of all the items he purchased or to the complete filling of the new bag with consequent need of dispensing a Further bag.
For the bulky items that cannot pass through the mouth 8 and therefore cannot even be inserted into the plastic bags, a roller path is provided, on which the items already registered by scanner 6 may be lent to be weighed. In fact such roller path is integral with un;t 1 so it loads as well balance 2.
As soon as the bulky item placed on the roller path 12 has been weighed, the reactivation takes place of scanner 6 that, as in the other cases, had been inhi-bited after the registration of the bulky item.
Referring to Fig~ 2 there can be seen how the reel support;ng device 3 as well as unit 1 are mount-3 ~ ~
ed on the sides of counter 11, both of them being of the type described in theCanadian patent appllcation No.2028684 9 of the same applicant. Only unit 1 and roller path 12 load balance 7 wh;ch therefore S can de~ect their weight as a tare and the actual weight of each item inserted into the apparatus through the mouth 8. To this end it is important that unit 1 is completely divided from the reel supporting device 3 as the weight thereof changes continuously during the consumption of the reel.
The balance 2 may be suitably chosen among those known on sale having a limited height so that the mouth 8 is always easily accessible for the customer.
As these are known balances they do not need any particular description, and the same for canner 6 and computer 7.
In F;g. 3 there can be seen that the roller path 12 is an integral part of unit 1 so it is detec ed as well lilce tare of balance 2.
In Fig. 4 a flow-chart is shown describing in a clear and simple manner the functioning of the ap-paratus according to this invention. In said flow--chart the operating step does not appear of the issuing of the cash-slip that the rustomer must show Z5 at the check-out counter for the payment of the items he purchased and inserted in the plastic bags 4. The printer is not even shown in the other annexed draw-ings as it does not fall within the scope of the present invention. In fact it may be mounted, in a know way, in the apparatus according to the present invention~ or it may be even eliminated. In this 2 ~ 8 ~
second case the check-out counter would receive by means of cables all data reg;stered by the scanner and displayed by the mon;tor of computer 7 from which the customer wou~d only have to note the amount to pay at the check-out counter.
Further variations and/or modifications may be made by those skilled in the art to the apparatus according to the present invention and in particular to its embodiments hereinabove described only as non limit;ng examples of the apparatus itself.
INCORPORATING DEVICES FOR THE REGISTERING OF THE
PURCHASED ITEMS"
The present invention relates to an apparatus intended to be placed in supermarkets and in other similar points of sale to dispense one at a time plastic bags unwound from a reel, open them and keep them open below a mouth through which the customer of the supermarket may insert in the bag the purchas-ed items that must be taken away, after having regi-stered their characteristics and cost by means of a scanner connected to such apparatus by a computer.
It is known that recently in supermarkets and in other similar points of sale devices have been ;ntroduced to dispense plastic bags to the customers and allow them to easily insert in such bags, kept open by the device, the purchased items normally paid to the check-out counter. Devices of this kind are described for instance in the Canad;an patent applicatjOn No.2028684-9 filed by the same appli-cant.
Such prior devices have not any instrument to 2û verify the characteristics and price of the purchased items so their use is solely Limited to the packaging of the purchased goods. Thus they may be used only downstream the check-out counters of the supermarkets and therefore they do not contribute to reduce the t;me that cashiers need to register the goods purchas ed by each customer.
2~5~3~
The object of the present ;nvention is to provide a bag dispensing apparatus suitabLe to be used up-stream the check-out counters of the supermarkets so that to allow the customer to register by himself the purchased goods and come to the check-out counter only to pay the due amount.
Such object ;s achieved accord;ng to the present invention by means of a bag dispens;ng apparatus of the type described in the above mentioned prior Euro-pean patent application characterized in that itcomprises as well a scanner connected through a com-puter to a balance arranged below sald dispensing device and apt to detect the weight of the items inserted into the plastic bags.
The dispensing apparatus according to the pre-sent invention offers the advantage to allow the customer, besides the packaging of the purchased items, a precise registration of such items and the-refore to stay at the check out counter exclusively for the time necessary to the payment of the bill.
Obviously this considerably limits the forming of queues at the check-out counters.
A further advantage offered by the dispenser according to this invention consists in that it can be directly connected by means of cables to the che-ck-out counter therefore with no need even of the use of a pr;nter to issue cash-slips.
These and other advantages and characteristics of the apparatus according to the present invention will be clear to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of one embodiment 2~ 3~8 thereof with reference to the anne~ed drawings in which:
FIGURE 1 shows a perspective v;ew of a dispens-________ ing apparatus according to the present invention;
FIGURE 2 shows an elevational partially sctioned front view of the apparatus according to the present invention;
FIG_RE_3 shows an elevational partially section-ed side view of the dispensing apparatus; and FIGyRE-- shows a flow-chart describing the func-tioning of such apparatus.
Referring to Fig. 1 there can be seen that the apparatus according to the present invention comprises four distinct ~unctional blocks, i.e. a unit 1 for dispensing and opening the bags that rests on a ba-lance 2 and that is interposed between a reel sup-porting device 3, surmounted by a channel 5 for the removal of bags 4, and a counter 11 on which a scan-ner 6 and a computer 7 are mounted. Unit 1 has on its upper part a mouth 8 through which the customer may insert the purchased items and let them fall inside a bag 4 arranged in open position below said mouth 8.
In Fig~ 1 the hand is shown as well of the cu-stomer who, having taken a can 9 from an usual trol-ley, is causing the scanner 6 to read the bar code 10 of said can 9. The scanner decodes all data con-tained in the bar code, among which the weight of can 9 with the allowable deviation in weight thereof.
Such data are stored inside c~mputer 7 and displayed on the monitor, while scanner 6 is inhibited. In ~ I) r~ 8 virtue of such inhibition the customer cannot make the mistake to register the can 9 more than once, or to re~ister a further item forgetting to insert the can 9 into the bag ~t.
The can 9 is introduced by the customer into the mouth 8 and let fall into the underposed bag 4~
Now the balance 2, whcse tare comprises the weight of the whole unit 1, detects the weight o-f can 9 and transmits it to the computer. The computer compares the we;ght of can 9 detected by the balance 2 and the one read from the bar code, taking into account the allowable deviation as well. If the two values of the can weight agree, the computer reactivates the scanner 6 allowing the registration of another item.
In the case in which the two weights, detected respectively by balance 2 and by scanner 6, of the same item differ, on the monitor the order appears to pull out from bag 4 the can 9 and to repeat the registrations thereof by scanner 6 reactivated in the meantime. If after said second registration a difference will exist again between the weight read in the bar code 10 and the one detected by the ba-lance, on the mon;tor of computer 7 the request will appear to seek for the technical assistance of the supermarket to repair the obvious breakdown.
The customer may go on with the registration of the items he purchased until the last one of them or until the complete filling of bag 4. In the first case he has nothing to do but pressing a suitabLe button causing the ejection of the filLed bag 4 push-2 ~
ing it on the channel 5 from which it can be easily taken by the customer before going to the check-out counter -for the payment of the purchased goods.
Whereas ;n the second case the customer reads on the monitor of computer 7 the order to puLl out from the mouth 8 the last item inserted as it has an encumbrance greater than the remaining room of bag 4. Once the customer has executed this extraction following the instructions read on the monitor of computer 7, on this monitor the request appears for the customer to press the button -For the ejection of the filled bag 4 and the dispensing of an empty bag 4' below the mouth 8. In the meantime the scanner 6 has been reactivated so the customer may register a new item taken from the trolley and begin a new ope-rating cycle until the complete packaging of all the items he purchased or to the complete filling of the new bag with consequent need of dispensing a Further bag.
For the bulky items that cannot pass through the mouth 8 and therefore cannot even be inserted into the plastic bags, a roller path is provided, on which the items already registered by scanner 6 may be lent to be weighed. In fact such roller path is integral with un;t 1 so it loads as well balance 2.
As soon as the bulky item placed on the roller path 12 has been weighed, the reactivation takes place of scanner 6 that, as in the other cases, had been inhi-bited after the registration of the bulky item.
Referring to Fig~ 2 there can be seen how the reel support;ng device 3 as well as unit 1 are mount-3 ~ ~
ed on the sides of counter 11, both of them being of the type described in theCanadian patent appllcation No.2028684 9 of the same applicant. Only unit 1 and roller path 12 load balance 7 wh;ch therefore S can de~ect their weight as a tare and the actual weight of each item inserted into the apparatus through the mouth 8. To this end it is important that unit 1 is completely divided from the reel supporting device 3 as the weight thereof changes continuously during the consumption of the reel.
The balance 2 may be suitably chosen among those known on sale having a limited height so that the mouth 8 is always easily accessible for the customer.
As these are known balances they do not need any particular description, and the same for canner 6 and computer 7.
In F;g. 3 there can be seen that the roller path 12 is an integral part of unit 1 so it is detec ed as well lilce tare of balance 2.
In Fig. 4 a flow-chart is shown describing in a clear and simple manner the functioning of the ap-paratus according to this invention. In said flow--chart the operating step does not appear of the issuing of the cash-slip that the rustomer must show Z5 at the check-out counter for the payment of the items he purchased and inserted in the plastic bags 4. The printer is not even shown in the other annexed draw-ings as it does not fall within the scope of the present invention. In fact it may be mounted, in a know way, in the apparatus according to the present invention~ or it may be even eliminated. In this 2 ~ 8 ~
second case the check-out counter would receive by means of cables all data reg;stered by the scanner and displayed by the mon;tor of computer 7 from which the customer wou~d only have to note the amount to pay at the check-out counter.
Further variations and/or modifications may be made by those skilled in the art to the apparatus according to the present invention and in particular to its embodiments hereinabove described only as non limit;ng examples of the apparatus itself.
Claims (3)
1. Apparatus for dispensing and opening plastic bags from a continuous strip wound in a reel, apt to detach from it a bag (4) at a time, to open it and keep it open below a mouth (8) through which a custo-mer may insert the items he purchased, characterized in that it is formed by four assemblable functional blocks constituted by a reel supporting device (3) feeding the strip of bags to a unit (1), of dispens-ing and opening of bags (4), that loads a balance (2) connected through a computer (7) to a scanner (6), said computer (7) and said scanner (6) forming the fourth functional block of the assemblable system
2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the balance (2), on which is loaded unit (1) of dispensing and opening of bags (4), apt to detect the weight of each item while they are inserted into the bag (4), is connected to the scanner (6) through the computer (7) in such a way that it inhibits the scanner (6) when, for a certain item introduced into the bag (4), the weight detected by balance (2) dif-fers from the one detected by scanner (6) on the bar code of said item.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, charac-terized in that the balance (2), the scanner (6) and the computer (7) are connected in such a way that the latter inhibits scanner (6) when it has regi-stered an item and reactivates it when such item has been weighed by balance (2) and the detected weight agrees with the one detected by scanner (6).
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- 1991-11-01 IE IE382591A patent/IE913825A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1991-11-01 KR KR1019910019404A patent/KR920009360A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
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